Process of manufacturing wax flowers.



M. WERBATUS.

PROCESS OF MANUFACTURING WAX FLOWERS.

APPLICATION FILED SIB-P113, 1911.

' 1,029,777, I Patented June 18,1912.

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MARIE WERBATUS, 0F ELSTER, GERMANY.

PROCESS OF MANUFACTURING WAX FLOWERS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 18, 1912.

Application filed September 13, 1911. Serial No. 649,070.

To all whom it may concern. I

Be it known that I, MARIE WERBATUS, a subject of the King of Saxony, residing at Elster, in the Kingdom of Saxony, Germany, have invented certain new and use-- ful Improvements in Processes of Manufacturing Wax Flowers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a process for the manufacture of wax flowers.

The invention particularly consists in the result of the process according to which the wax is shaped into flower petals directly by hand without the use of a frame, such as for example the paper molds usually employed.

According to the improved process amold having been previously moistened is immersed in a loath of wax whereby a thin layer of wax is formed upon said mold which after the wax has cooled, is removed from the mold. The petals of wax thus formed are mounted on stems of wire and shaped by hand according to the natural form of the flower petals. By connecting the required number of such wax petals a flower is formed.

In the accompanying drawing the application of the process is illustrated.

Figure 1 shows the wooden mold for forming the petals of a rose; I Fig. 2 shows the mold, one half being coacted with wax; Fig. 3 represents the wax petal after it has been removed from the mold. Fig. 4 shows the wax petal placed around a wire stem. Fig. 5 represents the wax flower composed of three wax petals. Fig. 6 shows the finished wax rose. Fig. 7 represents a bunch of several wax flowers.

The improved process is as follows After the wooden mold a has been immersed in water it is plunged into a bath of melted wax so that half of the mold is coated with wax.

The mold a can be of any suitable shape and dimensions, the part of its surface to be plunged into the melted waxbeing smoothed. It is not necessary to provide a handle as the mold if sufficiently thick can be easily gripped by the hand at the part which has not to be plunged into the melted wax. The wax coating 6 is removed from the mold by hand after it has cooled, the cool ing being accelerated by plunging the mold with the wax into cold water. The wax petal has the shape shown in Fig. 3. The wax petal o is mounted upon a wire 0 as shown in Fig. 4, the free parts of the petals being bent by hand according to the natural shape of the flower petals to be imitated. The part where the petals are attached to the wire stem is covered by paper of corresponding color.

The wax flowers can be combined to flower bunches.

I claim A process of making wax flowers, consisting in molding wax petals of suitable shape by immersing a moistened wooden mold in a bath of melted wax, removing the wax coating from the mold after it has cooled, shaping the wax petals thus formed into the de sired shape, attaching a wire stem to each of such petals and assembling such petals to form a flower.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

MARIE WERBATUS.

Witnesses:

BRUNO CERPELLE, RUDOLPH FRIoKE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

